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      Generally speaking my journey to Guangzhou is a nice one. My neighbors were good to me. Especially the girl that coming to Guangzhou for work, she shared with me her experience of her Senior year, making resume and sitting interviews. She was a easy-going person with sweet smile. Apart from sleeping time, we talked all the way here.

      The southern part of China is obviously different from the north. Plants here are shockingly vigorous. Houses are under tiled rooves as they are always exposed to heavy and long-lasting rainfalls. The weather here is rather changeable. Therefore, it is necessary to take an unbrella whenever you want to go outdoors. This is always helpful, because you would use it to shade the strong sunshine, or sometimes you may use it as a protection against sudden shower.

      The railway station of Guangzhou is no less crowded than that in Xi’an. However, the design of this station is more reasonable, making the visitor flows gather and dismiss more orderly. It devides the passengers who want to change to other long-distant routes from those who want to stay in this City. Distant passengers would turn right to buy ticket for their following travel and the stay-in-city traveller can go directly left to take buses in its nearby bus station center.

     This is a prosperous, populous and perfectly-ordered city. I think it deserves people’s yearning.

      As you know, I failed to book the in-time ticket for Guangzhou. Therefore, have no choice but to stay in Xi’an for another one week. During this period of time, there’s barely any people on campus to company me. So I decided to go around this city. First, it would be the terracotta warriors and horses, because of my unexpected injury in my freshman year,I missed the chance to go there with my father and threw it out of my mind for more than three years. .

      The Mausoleum  is located at the northern Shaanxi Province, at the foot of Lishan Hill in Lintong. It is the largest mausoleum ever discovered in the world. The First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty successfully defeated all rival ducal states and unified China by establishing the first centralized feudal dynasty. And this mausoleum is built as a national sacrifice for him.

      It covers a total of 2.18 million square meters. The tomb itself covers 220,000 square meters, originally 166 meters in hight, but reduced to 76 meters by weathering and damage. The bottom of the tomb measures 485 meters by 515 meters. Magnificent grandeur！

      Long have I waited for this very day to leave Xi’an for a journey. Though I don’t have clear destiny this time, it gives me the outmost freedom to choose to stop or start out.’

      Tomorrow morning, early at 6:30, I would leave on the train for Guangzhou. This city has being hot for more than one and a half month. Today, it gives up and present me a drizzle as his gift for my leave. Thanks for your kindness, Xi’an. I will come back full of energy and stories to tell.

      This would be the last post I could write in this city. I hope everything would go perfect in my journey. I wanna meet a lot of people and befriend of them. Then I hope all my roommates who are still living on this campus would have a good summer holiday. And those preparing for the internship interview good luck! Hopefully, when I get back in the new semester, we will have boundless stories to tell each other, so as to learn from different experiences.

      I would like to check my packages before I got on the bus. See me in some certain cities!

      Two of my friends headed for Xi’an early in the morning to attend the course for postgraduate exam. They got on the bus when I was sleeping soundly. After the other roommate went out leaving me alone in the dorm, I continued my dreams till now.

      The campus is now so quiet and still that it is suitable for nothing but sleep. Apart from the busy-working construction machines, the entire campus is in stillness. It’s just like the stillness of the Tangquan Lake (a man-make lake on our campus), which lies deadly under the sun’s autocratic rulling. It’s rotten smell spreads in the air, so as the deadly stillness of the whole campus.

      The heat wave are poised to envade our dorm once the french shas opens. I locked the door and turned offf the light. The blue curtain dyed the whole dorm into a sea. And I am sleeping in a cornor of it. The fan on the ceiling is turning his bland big face around, looking rather inane. The sleeping mat underneath lies in total silence. She is protesting wordlessly against the sweaty body dwelling upon her.

      There’s not at all so called dictatorship in this 6-squar meter room. Every member has his own hardship. While I am only a refugee here, depending on all the surroundings to escape the torment of this summer day.

      It is a movie adapted from Hardy’s novle Jude the Obsecure. It is a sussessful analysis of love, religion and life. To me, it tells a lot about the above mentioned and shocks heavily on my conception of movie.

      I do not want to mention neither about the plot nor the performance of the actors. They are all awsome in this movie. It really worth watching. It impressed me by its theme, its reflection of the real world and its distribution of several subjects all at a time.

      Jude expresses with dark elegance a profound pessimistic view of life. I haven’t read Hardy’s original work Jude the Obsecure. However, I could feel the book must be filled with strong sense of the author’s recognition of the 1990s as a depressing and bitter period of time. The young people like Jude was struggling to make ends meet. Hard working as Jude is, he could not enter his fancy college. Instead, the students were shamed after hearing Jude reciting a excerption in Greek. It is a critical attack towards the then existing edudcation system.

      I was surprised to see that the British society was so conservative at Jude’s time. They refused to hire Jude, though his carpentry skill was appreciatable. They refused to accept him to rent their houses just because he hadn’t married Sue, the woman he lived together with.

      Sue is not compliant to the prevelant religious belief. She bought statues because of which the landlord forced her to move out. She loves Jude. Therefore, she chooses to go with him even if she has already married. Traditional marriage to her is nothing more than a bound between two people in case one would abandon the other.

     However, her liberty with belief and religion was totally shocked down to the ground by her children’s death. I don’t think her choice to leave Jude is her heart hatred or resentment towards Jude. Instead, she is in deep fear that her being together with him would kill her loved one, because she blame herself for her children’s death. All the sufferings and misfortunes, in her point of view is due to her disobedience against the religion and the social convention. She leaves him for her deepest love of him.

  I love this movie! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!

      Ailsa, you started out this morning for Chengdu. Remember we exchanged our student certificates for possible discounts? Here, as a local Chengduness, I would like to  recommand to you some fancy, pricey hotels for you to stay in. This should have been done before you set out. However, it’s better late than never.

Sichuan Hotel would hit the top of my list:

      I’ve stayed in Sichuan hotel for several times when our relatives came from afar. It’s rather comfortable and homelike. You know, apart from its delicate furnish, I exclusively enjoy its bathroom, because it’s embeded in the bedroom, partitioned by frosted glass. It brings the entire atmosphere a hovering relaxing flavor.

      More importantly, it locates right in the center of the city. You can go directly to the pedestrian shopping area –Chun Xi Road without any transportation vehicle. It only take you a five-minute walk. It is about 1.6 km away from the Renmin Parkand only 30 to get to the Panda City of China.

     You can rest assured that you are safe staying in this five-star hotel. Though it ranks high, it’s far cheaper than you would expect it to be, taking you only around RMB 100 per night. Even costs  only a little bit more than those ordinary inns. I guess it may be the cheapest one among the five-stars. You can surf on its web: http://www.scsti.ac.cn/tour/html/agent/chuanbin.html

Yun Long Hotel is also a good choice

      It stands at the crossroad of Xinhua Road, in the center of the city. As a solo girl traveler, I would strongly recommand you to stay in a more safer place like the city center rather than the outskirts. Yun Long is equiped with central air conditioner, security system, hi-fi equipment, cable TV, mini bar, IDD, ect.

     As a three-star hotel, it is apparently excessively fancy to have many restaurant on its eighth floor providing many dilicious food for you. Night clubs, tea house, beauty saloon, gym and KTV rooms are also available right inside its building.

    I have already said a lot. It’s high time for you to explore the city. Hope you will have a good journey in Chengdu. Never mind if you need to give a counter offer of recommandations for me. Though your homecity Shenzhen is also a entirely unkown city to me, I have already found good rates through a website addressed: http://www.hotelscombined.com It offers information about hotels in every corner of the world. If you need more information about hotels in Chengdu, you can click this link: http://www.hotelscombined.com/BrowseByCountry.aspx

      Oh, one last thing. Don’t bother with your diet any more. Enjoy the delicious food~! I guess you will love them. Keep in contact!

Today is a special day. Not only special because of the specially scorching sunshine, but also because our finals are completed on this very day. Moreover, today is one of my best friend’s birthday.

After handed in the paper for the last examination, we rushed bach to the dorm, got packed up and then jumped into the mini school bus, heading for Xi’an city. Excitement filled us all the way to the hotpot resteraunt. It was even more sultry to sit among coutless hotpots. But we are too happy to mind the temperature.

There were altogether 14 boys and girls cheering, drinking and eating excitedly. It seems as if the resteraunt was filled up with our voice mixed with those from our neighbors, who seemed to be influenced by our happiness.

This is the end of our finals. More importantly, it is the beginning of my summer day adventure. Tickets in the following 4 have been sold out. This makes me reflect on my lack of plans. It forces me to postpone the entire travelling plan…

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      My finals are approaching it ending. Next Thusday will witness my freeing from this campus!

      Logged on-line, I received mails from my friend asking me when am I going to Guangzhou. This is not a simple Q&A session. It made me excited about the up-coming months. Moreover, I received the invitation from my CS(Couch Surfing) host. She accepted me as her guest in Shenzhen. Hope it be a nice experience for me to trust a stranger and enter her life range.

      People are usually indifferent to those who stay around them. I am one of them. However, our indifference does not at all mean we are cold-blooded or something. This is only because we are protecting ourselves against a certain kind of uncertainty. This time, I believe it will be a challenge for me to break down my habitual way of behaving; it will be a turning point of my way of dealing with people, either for better or for worse.

      I am now excited about my adventurous summer holidays. Anyway, wish myself good luck!

      These days I’ve long been tied-hand-and-foot to my revision for the on-going exams. Today we have one day off to take a breath. After we finished the Business Correspondence, we returned to the dorm as if we had planned to. All the girls put down books to enjoy TV progms.

      I am not fond of action movies, especially the cliche ones telling the story between the policemen the the criminals. How many of them have been made to including blowing up half of the Kowloon and wrecking a dozen police cars? Too much means nonsense.

      However, as my roommate recommended, unwillingly, I started to watch it– New Policy Story. It, however, bears not so much weak points of the traditional policy stories, which makes it a little bit watchable.

      At the beginning of the movie, Officer Wing (Jacky Chan) hanging out drunk on an alcoholic bender a year after something terrible happend to him and his collegues. Flash back to the scene of the crime, and we watch with horror as the teenager gang fellows led by Joe (Daniel Wu) ambushes Wing’s entire SWAT team inside the obligatory abandoned warehouse and finally kills them all.

      One year later Wing is even more horrified to learn that those teens have created a video game based on the slaughter of the cops and have posted it on the net for the world to enjoy. Annoyed Wing is inspired to get in shape and get back to work.

      Actually, this movie is none-exceptionally bound to chases between cops an the criminals. Anyway, nothing beyond my expectation in the part.  However, there is one thing that I must admit. That is Jacky Chan has done a amazing job in this action movie because he seemed not at all being bothered by his age. What’s more, he acts himself this time. I mean, he dosen’t make up so much to cover his wrinckles and aged face. You know, nowadays actors especially some actress are always doing movies beyond their reach, say pretend to be unbeliveably younger than themselve.

      Therefore, I would say New Police Story is one of the few action films that can be accepted by me as watchable. Maybe boys would find it more interesting.